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Wekan is an open-source kanban board (Trello like) which allows a card-based task and to-do management.

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Wekan for personal life

Wekan for personal life

Wekan / General · July 22, 2020 at 8:49pm

Hi Wekan fans, I am a new guy and considering switching to this as a main task management system. If you already use Wekan this way, I wonder what your setup is like?

Having played around with Wekan for one day, these questions came up (see context section below this section):

  1. What is the difference between labels, lists, swimlanes and boards? It sounds obvious but I'm curious in what way you use them.
  2. Why do swimlanes automatically have the same lists? Can't they be different?
  3. Checklists vs subtasks? Subtasks seems to automatically create a new board with new cards. I don't know how I feel about that.
  4. There doesn't seem to be a priority field or a way to sort tasks yet?

For context:

  1. I'm thinking of having one board for GTD (Getting Things Done), this will have link cards from other boards that relate to other areas of my life (Reading, House, Work, Exercise).
  2. If it didn't work this way, I probably would've only created one board with different swimlanes. The swimlanes themselves would be the different areas of my life.

For sure, I know there is not 100% right or wrong answers to these. But if I can model someone who is already having success with it, that would be awesome. I can speed up the process of becoming more organised.

Note: I still haven't explored the Calendar/Templates, maybe I will check them out and come back with more questions later.

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July 23, 2020 at 2:20am

I use mostlu checklists, because catd menu has Copy checklist template to many cards

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    I use Wekan similarly like you in 1. So different boards for different main topics

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      Card menu I mean above

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        Not catd

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          For my personal use, I use card similarly that I would use post-it-note

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            It's easier to organize when I can drag cards around

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              for 2. "Why do swimlanes automatically have the same lists? Can't they be different?" answer is, someone coded those originally to be the same. Maybe sometime someone will send pull request of code that can allow them to be different.

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                for 3. subtasks, they create new board for subtasks, because someone coded that feature that way and sent pull request to Wekan

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                  1. For prorities, different colored labels are used
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                    hmm, I mean 4,.

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                      4.

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                        There sometime was a way to sort lists, etc, but unfortunately it messed up list order etc totally, so it was removed

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                          For the difference of them all, you generally divide big topics to smaller by subject etc, like Boards => Swimlanes => Lists => Cards => Checklists

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                            And for status of each card, add labels

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                              If you are looking for more examples, at Trello https://trello.com you can create account and browse their templates at https://trello.com/templates

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                                And then import that board to Wekan

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                                  Although, Trello does not have Swimlanes

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                                    Kanban boards are general purpose tool for organizing anything

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                                      I do also have some of my notes at this desktop app http://leoeditor.com

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                                        that organizes in tree structure

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                                          there is similar feature like "linked cards", in Leo feature "clones"

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                                            I hope to sometime implement Import/Export for Leo https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/2186

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